Brains

Well-known member

• Dec 28, 2020

• #1

Just seen this... Vault / cellar old mines, caves or what?
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-sinkhole-strange-hole-swallowed-4833979

 

pwhole

Well-known member

• Dec 28, 2020

• #2

Wow - that's the only street in Bristol I know. A guy I used to work with lived there - it's near the Clifton Bridge.

 

rhychydwr1

Active member

• Dec 28, 2020

• #3

Not really surprising as it is on limestone near to the Avon Gorge.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274625218967

 

RobinGriffiths

Well-known member

• Dec 28, 2020

• #4

In Mercia Mudstone, but that's the same formation as the entrance to Wookey, so maybe the good old Dolomitic Conglomerate?

 

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mikem

Well-known member

• Dec 28, 2020

• #5

Article says it's a collapsed vault.

 

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Andy Farrant

Active member

• Dec 29, 2020

• #6

It is on the 'Dolomitic Conglomerate', but if you look at the various photos online, you can see two brick arches that have collapsed, so some kind of vault, cellar or bomb shelter? It's not a natural sinkhole.

 

Roger W

Well-known member

• Dec 29, 2020

• #7

No caverns measureless to man there, then.

 

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mikem

Well-known member

• Dec 29, 2020

• #8

There are several measured & unmeasured nearby.

 

CavingPig

Member

• Dec 30, 2020

• #9

Went to look at this yesterday and a resident told us it's cellars - as Andy says, you could make out some brickwork and remnants of arches. All the houses on the square (which are all huge and fancy) have big cellars that extend quite a long way, but I don't think people realised quite how far! (I would say the edge of the hole is about 8 m from the front of the nearest houses)

 

PeteHall

Moderator

• Dec 30, 2020

• #10

Having designed basement conversions for a couple of these houses, I can confirm that there is a lot below ground, often extending a considerable distance from the above-ground part of the house.

 

RobinGriffiths

Well-known member

• Dec 30, 2020

• #11

Wasn't a Russian oligarch doing a London style basement conversion was it ?

 

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mikem

Well-known member

• Dec 30, 2020

• #12

It's not really in their style...

 

RobinGriffiths

Well-known member

• Dec 31, 2020

• #13

mikem said:

It's not really in their style...

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Yes you are right. Less digging and more nerve agents.

 

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Speleofish

Active member

• Dec 31, 2020

• #14

A friend of mine once lived there - there was almost as much house below ground as above it (all dating back long before Russian oligarchs were invented).